The Walsingham Files - Chapter 1

I really enjoyed this game! I found it a little bit challenging but that's good! I like the RPG style. The dialogue is pretty quality!

"The Walsingham Files - Chapter 1" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "The Walsingham Files". The Walsingham Files is a godawful RPG Maker asset flip... wow, does Steam really need advertisements for RPG Maker asset flips? This garbage RPG Maker asset flip is being dumped onto Steam one chapter at a time, and the developer delusionally expects to be paid a whopping $7 for the next part of the asset flip. They also want $1 off you for a commentary about how they used RPG Maker to create an advert for a garbage RPG Maker asset flip with high school anime club dropout fan-fiction cringe writing. Ugh. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not The Walsingham Files, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "The Walsingham Files - Chapter 1" too. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. WTF does an advert need paid DLC??? It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 13 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.

Jogo bem feito, vale a pena experimentar.

Тотальная деградация со стороны автора. Думал, что хуже третьей главы Silver Creek Falls от него уже ничего не выйдет... но нет, вышла вот эта вот новая игрушка... увы, разочарование по всем фронтам. Не советую!

Игра погружает в мрачную атмосферу викторианской Англии с головокружительно детализированным сюжетом. Гениальная механика расследования, где каждая улица и диалог полны загадок. Идеальный баланс между хоррором и детективом, оставляющий желание немедленно начать вторую главу.

Another good little point-and-click game from the makers of "The Silver Creek Falls" Trilogy. We meet a familiar face with this game. The detective from the previously mentioned series shows up and leads us through an interesting story of murder and intrigue. The graphics are top-notch, the gameplay is interesting enough to keep you playing and the storyline is involving. The only real issues with this game are: The achievements gained for playing on Steam don't show up on the game screen properly. And the episodes (there's more than one,) are not released in a joined collective. I personally think it would be better if the player could play games like these as one single experience, rather than two or more disjointed experiences.